A High Efficiency Hardware Implementation of S-Boxes Based on Composite Field for Advanced Encryption Standard

The SubBytes (S-box) transformation is the most crucial operation in the AES algorithm, significantly impacting the implementation performance of AES chips. To design a high-performance S-box, a segmented optimization implementation of the S-box is proposed based on the composite field inverse operation in this paper. This proposed S-box implementation is modeled using Verilog language and synthesized using Design Complier software under the premise of ensuring the correctness of the simulation result. The synthesis results show that, compared to several current S-box implementation schemes, the proposed implementation of the S-box significantly reduces the area overhead and critical path delay, then gets higher hardware efficiency. This provides strong support for realizing efficient and compact S-box ASIC designs.

ASIC Design of Floating-Point FFT Processor

An application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design of a 1024 points floating-point fast Fourier transform(FFT) processor is presented. It can satisfy the requirement of high accuracy FFT result in related fields. Several novel design techniques for floating-point adder and multiplier are introduced in detail to enhance the speed of the system. At the same time, the power consumption is decreased. The hardware area is effectively reduced as an improved butterfly processor is developed. There is a substantial increase in the performance of the design since a pipelined architecture is adopted, and very large scale integrated (VLSI) is easy to realize due to the regularity. A result of validation using field programmable gate array (FPGA) is shown at the end. When the system clock is set to 50 MHz, 204.8 μs is needed to complete the operation of FFT computation.

Application of FPGA in Process Tomography Systems

This paper will provide some insights on the application of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) in process tomography. The focus of this paper will be to investigate the performance of the technology with respect to various tomography systems and comparison to other similar technologies including the Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and the microcontroller. Fundamentally, the FPGA is primarily used in the Data Acquisition System (DAQ) due to its better performance and better trade-off as compared to competitor technologies. However, the drawback of using FPGA is that it is relatively more expensive.

The application of sample-and-hold circuits in the laser frequency-shifting

A new method of frequency-shifting for a diode laser is realized. Using a sample-and-hold circuit, the error signal can be held by the circuit during frequency shifting. It can avoid the restraint of locking or even lock-losing caused by the servo circuit when we input a step-up voltage into piezoelectric transition （PZT） to achieve laser frequency-shifting.

Low-power and area-optimized VLSI implementation of AES coprocessor for Zigbee system

A low-power and low-cost advanced encryption standard （AES） coprocessor is proposed for Zigbee system-on-a-chip （SoC） design. The cost and power consumption of the proposed AES coprocessor are reduced considerably by optimizing the architectures of SubBytes/InvSubBytes and MixColumns/InvMixColumns, integrating the encryption and decryption procedures together by the method of resource sharing, and using the hierarchical power management strategy based on finite state machine （FSM） and clock gating （CG） technologies. Based on SMIC 0.18 μm complementary metal oxide semiconductor （CMOS） technology, the scale of the AES coprocessor is only about 10.5 kgate, the corresponding power consumption is 69.1 μW/MHz, and the throughput is 32 Mb/s, which is reasonable and sufficient for Zigbee system. Compared with other designs, the proposed architecture consumes less power and fewer hardware resources, which is conducive to the Zigbee system and other portable devices.